nLighten Technologies is a fabless IC/optics company that designs, manufactures and markets adaptive optics platforms which enables traditional optics to become “digital.” The benefits of adaptive optics include enabling higher resolutions, wider field of view/depth at much lower cost. The underlying technology is nonlinear scaling or the scan/mapping of pixels through its optical path which takes non square pixels and makes them square. Target volume markets include security cameras, vehicle backup and windshield displays, cell phone or handheld video player pico projection displays, digital and cellphone cameras, front/rear projection microdisplay HDTV displays.